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Barber Violin Concerto

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Nil Venditti perform Rossini, Respighi and María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir. Stella Chen is soloist in Barber's Violin Concerto.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales are joined by conductor Nil Venditti for a programme celebrating her Italian heritage with the music of Rossini and Respighi, as well as a UK Premiere of a work by María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, and Barber's much-loved Violin Concerto.

The concert opens with Sigfúsdóttir's Oceans, an effervescent work by the Icelandic composer that is rooted in the natural world. Then, before the interval, Stella Chen will join the orchestra to dazzle in Barber's Violin Concerto, a lyrical piece which demands great virtuosity from the soloist. To finish, two works which are intimately linked: Ottorino Respighi's Rossiniana, in which he takes four piano pieces of Rossini and transforms them into a wonderful orchestral work, and then the name sake of that piece's most famous work, Rossini's Overture to William Tell.

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir: Oceans
Barber: Violin Concerto, Op 14
Respighi: Rossiniana P 148
Rossini: William Tell (Overture)

Stella Chen (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nil Venditti (conductor)

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Music Played

  • María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir

    Oceans

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin concerto, Op 14

    Performer: Stella Chen. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi, che sapete

    Performer: Stella Chen. Performer: Steven Hudson.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasia in C major, D 934

    Performer: Stella Chen. Performer: Henry Kramer.
    • Platoon.

  • María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir

    Kom vinur

    Choir: Schola Cantorum. Conductor: Hörður Áskelsson.
    • Sono Luminus.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Les Cornichons

    Performer: Alessandro Marangoni.
    • rossini: complete piano music vol. 6.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Rossiniana (Suite From Rossini's 'Les Riens')

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet In F Major Op.77 No.2

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.

Broadcast

  • Tuesday19:30
    BBC Radio 3

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